1457 verses about Heart

Give me any plague but the plague of the heart; And any wickedness but the wickedness of a woman;

A wicked woman is abasement of heart, And sadness of countenance, and a wounded heart: A woman that will not make her husband happy Is as hands that hang down, and palsied knees.

Whether a man be rich or poor, A good heart makes at all times a cheerful countenance.

Of three things my heart was afraid; And concerning the fourth kind I made supplication: The slander of a city, and the assembly of a multitude, and a false accusation: All these are more grievous than death.

A grief of heart and sorrow is a woman that is jealous of another woman, And the scourge of a tongue communicating to all.

The whoredom of a woman is in the lifting up of her eyes; And it will be known by her eyelids.

Look well after an impudent eye; And marvel not if it trespass against you.

For two things my heart is grieved; And for the third anger comes upon me: A man of war that suffers for poverty; And men of understanding that are counted as refuse: One that turns back from righteousness to sin; The Lord will prepare him for the sword.

The fruit of a tree declares the husbandry thereof; So is the utterance of the thought of the heart of a man.

The discourse of a godly man is always wisdom: But the foolish man changes as the moon.

For as a man has destroyed his enemy, So have you destroyed the friendship of your neighbor.

Man cherisheth anger against man; And does he seek healing from the Lord?

He that makes too much of his son shall bind up his wounds; And his heart will be troubled at every cry.

There is no riches better than health of body; And there is no gladness above the joy of the heart.

Gladness of heart is the life of a man; And the joyfulness of a man is length of days.

Love your own soul, and comfort your heart: And remove sorrow far from you; For sorrow has destroyed many, And there is no profit therein.

A cheerful and good heart Will have a care of his meat and diet.

Remember that an evil eye is a wicked thing: What has been created more evil than an eye? Therefore it sheds tears from every face.

The furnace proves the temper of steel by dipping; So does wine prove hearts in the quarreling of the proud.

Wine drunk in season and to satisfy Is joy of heart, and gladness of soul:

There take your pastime, and do what is in your heart; And sin not by proud speech:

He that seeks the law shall be filled therewith: But the hypocrite shall stumble thereat.

The heart of a fool is as a cartwheel; And his thoughts like a rolling axle tree.

Divinations, and soothsayings, and dreams, are vain: And the heart fancies, as a woman’s in travail.

If they be not sent from the Most High in your visitation, Give not your heart to them.

The mouth tastes meats taken in hunting: So does an understanding heart false speeches.

A froward heart will cause heaviness: And a man of experience will recompense him.

O wicked imagination, whence came you rolling in To cover the dry land with deceitfulness?

And make the counsel of your heart to stand; For there is none more faithful to you than it.

As a token of the changing of the heart,

Put away wrong doing, and order your hands aright, And cleanse your heart from all manner of sin.

For of sorrow comes death, And sorrow of heart will bow down the strength.

In calamity sorrow also remains: And the poor man’s life is grievous to the heart.

Give not your heart to sorrow: Put it away, remembering the last end:

He will apply his heart to resort early to the Lord that made him, And will make supplication before the Most High, And will open his mouth in prayer, And will make supplication for his sins.

The expectation of things to come, and the day of death, Trouble their thoughts, and cause fear of heart;

Wine and music rejoice the heart; And the love of wisdom is above both.

Riches and strength will lift up the heart; And the fear of the Lord is above both: There is nothing lacking in the fear of the Lord, And there is no need to seek help therein.

He searcheth out the deep, and the heart, And he has understanding of their cunning plans: For the Most High knows all knowledge, And he looks into the signs of the world,

The eye will marvel at the beauty of its whiteness, And the heart will be astonished at the raining of it.

God give you wisdom in your heart To judge his people in righteousness, That their good things be not abolished, And that their glory endure for all their generations.

Also the judges, every one by his name, All whose hearts went not a whoring, And who turned not away from the Lord, May their memorial be blessed.

In every work of his he gave thanks to the Holy One Most High with words of glory; With his whole heart he sang praise, And loved him that made him.

Who was recorded for reproofs in their seasons, To pacify anger, before it brake forth into wrath; To turn the heart of the father to the son, And to restore the tribes of Jacob.

Then were their hearts and their hands shaken, And they were in pain, as women in travail;

He set his heart right toward the Lord; In the days of wicked men he made godliness to prevail.

May he grant us joyfulness of heart, And that peace may be in our days in Israel for the days of eternity:

I have written in this book the instruction of understanding and knowledge, I Jesus, the son of Sirach Eleazar, of Jerusalem, Who out of his heart poured forth wisdom.

Blessed is he that shall be exercised in these things; And he that lays them up in his heart shall become wise.

From her flower as from the ripening grape my heart delighted in her: My foot trod in uprightness, From my youth I tracked her out.

I set my soul aright to her, And in pureness I found her. I got me a heart joined with her from the beginning: Therefore shall I not be forsaken.

My inward part also was troubled to seek her: Therefore I have gotten a good possession.

but we walked every man in the imagination of his own wicked heart, to serve strange gods, and to do that which is evil in the sight of the Lord our God.

Yet have we not entreated the favor of the Lord, in turning every one from the thoughts of his wicked heart.

For I know that they will not hear me, because it is a stiff-necked people: but in the land of their captivity they shall take it to heart,

and shall know that I am the Lord their God: and I will give them a heart, and ears to hear:

For for this cause you have put your fear in our hearts, to the intent that we should call upon your name: and we will praise you in our captivity, for we have called to mind all the iniquity of our fathers, that sinned before you.

But say you⌃ in your hearts, O Lord, we must worship you.

They are as one of the beams of the temple; and men say their hearts are eaten out, when things creeping out of the earth devour both them and their raiment: they feel it not

Nevertheless in a contrite heart and a humble spirit let us be accepted;

And now we follow you with all our heart, we fear you, and seek your face. Put us not to shame: but deal with us after your kindness, and according to the multitude of your mercy.

O you⌃ that are holy and humble of heart, bless you⌃ the Lord: praise and exalt him above all forever.

And the two elders saw her going in every day, and walking; and they were inflamed with love for her.

And she weeping looked up toward heaven: for her heart trusted in the Lord.

So he put him aside, and commanded to bring the other, and said to him, O you seed of Canaan, and not of Judah, beauty has deceived you, and lust has perverted your heart.

and went through to the ends of the earth, and took spoils of a multitude of nations. And the earth was quiet before him, and he was exalted, and his heart was lifted up,

And he called for all his Friends, and said to them, Sleep departs from my eyes, and my heart fails for care.

And I said in my heart, To what tribulation am I come, and how great a flood is it, wherein I now am! for I was gracious and beloved in my power.

And Judas saw that his army slipped away, and that the battle pressed upon him, and he was sore troubled in heart, for that he had no time to gather them together, and he waxed faint.

And the adversaries heard that Jonathan and his men were ready for battle, and they feared, and trembled in their hearts, and they kindled fires in their camp

And his heart was lifted up, and he was minded to make himself master of the country, and he took counsel deceitfully against Simon and his sons, to make away with them.

and give you all a heart to worship him and do his pleasure with a great heart and a willing soul;

and open your heart in his law and in his statutes, and make peace,

And with other such words exhorted he them, that the law should not depart from their heart.

For a terror and a shuddering of the body had come over the man, whereby the pain that was in his heart was plainly shewn to those who looked upon him.

And they all together praised the merciful God, and were yet more strengthened in heart: being ready to assail not men only but the wildest beasts, and walls of iron,

And contending with their hands, and praying to God with their hearts, they killed no less than thirty and five thousand men, being made exceeding glad by the manifestation of God.

And the works of Josias were upright before his Lord with a heart full of godliness.

And after that king Nabuchodonosor had made him to swear by the name of the Lord, he forswore himself, and rebelled; and hardening his neck, and his heart, he transgressed the laws of the Lord, the God of Israel.

Then the chief of the families of Judah and of the tribe of Benjamin stood up; the priests also, and the Levites, and all they whose spirit the Lord had stirred to go up, to build the house for the Lord which is in Jerusalem.

And those who lived round about them helped them in all things with silver and gold, with horses and cattle, and with very many gifts that were vowed of a great number whose minds were stirred up thereto.

and it makes every heart rich, so that a man remembers neither king nor satrap; and it makes to speak all things by talents:

Ezra 3:12, 13. Also of the priests the Levites, and of the heads of their families, the ancients who had seen the former house came to the building of this with lamentation and great weeping.

Then said Esdras the scribe, Blessed be the only Lord, the God of my fathers, who has put these things into the heart of the king, to glorify his house that is in Jerusalem:

So all those who were moved at the word of the Lord, the God of Israel, assembled to me, while I mourned for the iniquity: but I sat still full of heaviness until the evening sacrifice.

Now therefore I bow the knee of my heart, beseeching you of grace.

He, in his hardened mood, insensible to all persuasion, was going onwards with the view of carrying out this design.

Let your mercies quickly go before us. Grant us peace, that the cast down and broken hearted may praise you with their mouth.

All this, however, they have taken in a very different spirit. With their innate malignity, they have spurned the fair offer; and constantly inclining to evil,

The Jews suffered great throes of sorrow, and wept much; while their hearts, all things around being lamentable, were set on fire as they bewailed the sudden destruction which was decreed against them.

The king was filled with great and constant joy, and celebrated banquets before the temple idols. His erring heart, far from the truth, and his profane mouth, gave glory to idols, deaf and incapable of speaking or aiding, and uttered unworthy speech against the Greatest God.

The king’s heart teemed with impious rage; and he rushed forth with the mass, along with the elephants. With feelings unsoftened, and eyes pitiless, he longed to gaze at the hard and wretched doom of the above-mentioned Jews .

In the thirties year after the ruin of the city, I Salathiel (the same is Esdras) was in Babylon, and lay troubled upon my bed, and my thoughts came up over my heart:

And yet took you not away from them their wicked heart, that your law might bring forth fruit in them.

For the first Adam bearing a wicked heart transgressed, and was overcome; and not he only, but all they also that are born of him.

Thus disease was made permanent; and the law was in the heart of the people along with the wickedness of the root; so the good departed away, and that which was wicked abode still.

in all things doing even as Adam and all his generations had done: for they also bare a wicked heart:

For it came to pass when I came hither, that I saw also impieties without number, and my soul saw many evil-doers in this thirties year, so that my heart failed me.

and said to me, your heart has utterly failed you in regarding this world, and think you to comprehend the way of the Most High?

whereof if you can declare me one, I also will show you the way that you desire to see, and I will teach you wherefore the heart is wicked.